I am a Ph.D candidate in MIT's Department of Political Science and Security Studies Program and, during 2008-9, a pre-doctoral fellow in the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. In 2009-10 I will be a pre-doctoral fellow in the Program on Order, Conflict, and Violence at Yale University. My research interests are in civil war, international security, and ethnic politics. My dissertation studies organizational cohesion and fragmentation in insurgent groups, relying on research in India and Indian-administered Kashmir, Northern Ireland, and Sri Lanka. Other projects examine Pakistani regime instability, pro-state paramilitarism in ethnic civil wars, Indian and Pakistani foreign security policy, and the politics of terrorism and insurgency. My primary regional focus is on South Asia.
My work has been published or is forthcoming in Civil Wars, Comparative Political Studies, International Security, Security Studies, The Washington Quarterly, and from the RAND Corporation, among others. I have also spent time at RAND and in the offices of Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley and US Senator Arlen Specter. I received my BA in political science from the University of Chicago in 2004.
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